Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worm two ways, snoring squirrels raising their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill...
...wonder then, that Boston audiences were bewildered and outraged when asked to imagine Mr. sycamore turning into a tree. True, the play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...
...were recorded last week not the least was that of black-skinned, black-toothed Sergeant Katue, of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, who turned up at a New Guinea base after stalking Japs through the jungles for 73 days and picking off 26 of them, including one in an orange tree...
...dinners out with Mrs. Marshall) to see that he is disturbed only in extreme emergency. Last summer the General spent his free Saturday nights and Sundays at his country place near Leesburg, Va. An Army messenger, arriving importantly with a vital dispatch, found the Chief of Staff up a tree, pruning the limbs...
Disillusioned by this uninspiring example, they nevertheless repaired to the orchard, where they were promptly set to work gathering apples that had already fallen to the ground. "But we weren't allowed so much as to touch an apple on a tree," they...